Street Smarts
They'd never turned on a Mac and had no clue how to raise money . . . but they started an international magazine in their living room.
The wild ride began two Augusts ago, when Ginny Ferguson, 41, and Denise Brown, 38, strewed premiere issues of Bikes & Spikes--their sassy Minneapolis-based motorcycle magazine geared toward women--all over the tables of motorcycle industry execs at a Sturgis, South Dakota, press party. They were too green to know it was inappropriate for the occasion. But by night's end, they were signing autographs.
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